Sept 26, 1918
Somewhere in France
Dear Parents
I received some papers yesterday and was sure glad to get them as was several other Sonoma County fellows and we read everything that was in them. I wrote to John and Eliza last week. John haven't wrote to me since I have been in the army. I use to think that France was warm like California but it is more like Washington only colder than where we lived and it sure raines here. The French people was